Rate-limit Kafka event generation with kcat and bash

by | Nov 24, 2021 | big data, data in action, fun, ibmcloud, IT, scripting

Traffic for event streamsRecently, I worked with IBM Cloud Event Streams which is a message bus built with Apache Kafka. I was looking for a simple command-line tool to test my Event Streams instance and to stream access logs into it. That’s when I ran into kcat (formerly known as kafkacat). It is a generic command line Kafka producer and consumer and easy to install – just use a Docker image.